Improving effect of boron carbide on the combustion and thermal oxidation characteristics of amorphous boron

Boron carbide (B₄C) is one of the main products from the primary combustion of boron (B)-based propellants and has a significant influence on the secondary combustion of B. To systematically evaluate its effects on the secondary combustion of B, mixtures of B₄C and B in different mass ratios were prepared. To study the ignition temperatures and combustion flames of the samples, a xenon lamp ignition experimental system and a flame shape test system were designed, respectively. A thermogravimetry–differential scanning calorimetry–Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy combined thermal analysis system was used to study the thermal oxidation characteristics and analyze the gaseous products of the samples. The results indicate that B₄C reduces the heat absorption at the beginning of the ignition, but subsequently prevents the rapid rise of sample temperature. During the stable combustion stage, the maximum flame length under optical density 10⁻⁴ (OD4) filter was 20.4 mm, and the maximum flame length under 580 nm + OD4 filters (represents the combustion of B element) was 16.7 mm. The samples contained a small amount of HBO₂ and H₃BO₃, which led to slight mass loss during the low temperature section of the thermal oxidation process. During the high temperature section, the oxidation of B and B₄C caused considerable mass gain. The gaseous products of the thermal oxidation process include CO₂, CO, and H₂O. In general, the B content of 60% was the most beneficial to decrease the oxidation temperature, increase the combustion intensity, and improve the heat-releasing ability of the samples.

     

An origami paper device for complete elimination of interferents in enzymatic electrochemical biosensors

Many efforts have been made to prevent interferences in enzymatic electrochemical biosensors by permselective membranes or mediators with low redox potential. However, it is difficult to completely eliminate interferents without compromised sensitivity by these traditional procedures. We propose here a method based on an origami paper device that separates the electrochemical reactions of interferents and substrates for complete depletion of interferents and precise analysis of substrates. Interferents such as ascorbate, urate and paracetamol were completely consumed by a simple electrolysis step, while substrates were quantitatively analyzed by coulometry. With GOx as a model enzyme, an interference-free and calibration-free coulometric glucose biosensor has been demonstrated successfully. The proposed origami paper device provides a facile and easy-controlled approach to eliminate the electroactive interferents completely for enzymatic electrochemical biosensors.     

便携式气相色谱-质谱联用仪的研制及应用

将双曲面三维离子阱质谱技术与低热容气相色谱技术相结合,研制了便携式气相色谱-质谱联用仪(GC-MS).此仪器主要由进样系统、低热容气相色谱模块、气质接口以及小型化离子阱质谱模块等构成,其主机重量小于14 kg,体积为44 cm×36 cm×22 cm,功耗小于100W.该仪器中的离子阱质谱仪系统具有15～550 amu...     

Inversion of Hyperoutput Time-Delay Systems

Doklady Mathematics - The inversion of a linear time-invariant time-delay system is considered. For such systems, a canonical form with isolated zero dynamics is obtained, system invariant zeros...     

Neural coupling mechanism in fMRI hemodynamics

Nonlinear Dynamics - Neural activity alters with the changes in cerebral blood flow (CBF) and blood oxygen saturation. Despite that these changes can be detected with functional magnetic resonance...     

具有老化效应的单机共同工期安排和工件可拒绝排序问题

研究共同工期安排和具有老化效应的单机排序问题。在整个加工过程中,工件的实际加工时间是与其所在位置和工件本身老化率相关的函数,生产商可以通过支付一定的处罚费用而拒绝加工某些工件。鉴于生产过程中出现老化效应,通过采取维修活动来提高生产率。目标是划分接受工件集和拒绝工件集,确定接受工件集中工件的加工次序和维修活动安排的位置,以极小化接受工件的提前、延误、工期与拒绝工件的总处罚费用的加权和。对这一问题,首先将其转化为指派问题并构造了最优多项式时间算法;其次,证明了目标函数满足一定条件下的问题的更一般形式能够在多项式时间内得到最优解;最后,对本文问题的一个特殊情况,设计了具有更低时间复杂度的多项式动态规划算法。     

Biquadratic tensors,biquadratic decompositions,and norms of biquadratic tensors

Biquadratic tensors play a central role in many areas of science.Examples include elastic tensor and Eshelby tensor in solid mechanics,and Riemannian curvature tensor in relativity theory.The singular values and spectral norm of a general third order tensor are the square roots of the M-eigenvalues and spectral norm of a biquadratic tensor,respectively.The tensor product operation is closed for biquadratic tensors.All of these motivate us to study biquadratic tensors,biquadratic decomposition,and norms of biquadratic tensors.We show that the spectral norm and nuclear norm for a biquadratic tensor may be computed by using its biquadratic structure.Then,either the number of variables is reduced,or the feasible region can be reduced.We show constructively that for a biquadratic tensor,a biquadratic rank-one decomposition always exists,and show that the biquadratic rank of a biquadratic tensor is preserved under an independent biquadratic Tucker decomposition.We present a lower bound and an upper bound of the nuclear norm of a biquadratic tensor.Finally,we define invertible biquadratic tensors,and present a lower bound for the product of the nuclear norms of an invertible biquadratic tensor and its inverse,and a lower bound for the product of the nuclear norm of an invertible biquadratic tensor,and the spectral norm of its inverse.     

Focusing of helico-conical cosh-Gaussian beam

Helico-conical beam is attractive for its phase front is nonseparable helical and conical phase function, which produces a spiral intensity distribution occurs at the focal plane. In this letter, the focal properties of cosh-Gaussian beam with helico-conical wavefront were investigated to show that helico-conical phase front does not always produce spiral intensity distribution. On increasing decentered parameters in cosh parts of the beams, the spiral focal pattern evolves into multiple intensity peaks with center main strongest peak. Under condition of higher decentered parameters, the focal spiral curve disappears. In addition, the topological charge also affects the focal pattern considerably.